Hi, Michel here. (newbie)
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I'm an unbeliever... philosophically I might say that my only faith is that there will be another day for me. My only certainty is that onee, there won't be.
I have this little blog, Onelife where I state that "I'm only here for one lifetime, no pre-life, no after-life, but one life to live." I use it to express personal thoughts and interesting findings on atheism, irrationality, myths and fallacies.
My angle is that real (verifiebale) knowledge, the scientific approach, the skeptic worldviews must be spread out to fight ingnorance and those who gain advantage by maintaining their contemporaries in that state.
I'm also a visual artist and I use that capacity to illustrate and express my views. Here's a Flickr link to some of my work. Glad to be a member here, hope I'll be able to contribute.
My Blog: One Life
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
John Buchan, 1875 - 1940
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Welcome.
Ha! First post!
Welcome to the site!
Guess even you get to be first every once in awhile.
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
Cool artwork! It just gave me two ideas. Your ninja-esque FSM has a neat knot-like pattern in the middle, which made me think it would be really cool to see an Escher interpretation of the FSM, like the stairs that constantly go downward in a circle or the two/three pronged tuning fork. Are you able to draw in an Escher style? That would be a really neat FSM; his noodles are impossibly tangled, so that no fork could possibly untangle his mysterious noodles. Your existing knot is a good start, I guess I'm asking you ever thought of expanding it into a larger, more Escher-like piece.
The second was based on the idea of God, unicorn, FSM, etc. all existing together. The idea is a story where all these fantastical creatures exist, and they have various conflicting ideas about what 'Man' is. But the character of God doesn't believe in Man. He explains things thus: "Have you ever noticed that all the stories of 'Man', and His 'science' exist only as stories? It is obvious to us that miracles exist, I create them every day. But this 'science' thing? How come 'science' only ever exists in stories? Why don't we ever see examples of these testable theories making repeatable predictions? And why is Man a He? Are there no female aspect of Man? Just as Mermen have Mermaids, why are there no stories of Woman?" Kind of like a bizarro-atheist God. The other characters try to defend the belief in Man. Only the FSM has any sympathy for God in his unbelief.
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Welcome!
Our revels now are ended. These our actors, | As I foretold you, were all spirits, and | Are melted into air, into thin air; | And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, | The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, | The solemn temples, the great globe itself, - Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, | And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, | Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff | As dreams are made on, and our little life | Is rounded with a sleep. - Shakespeare
Thanks all for this warm welcome.
And for all the crazy ideas. But I'm certainly not of the caliber of M.-C. Escher.
My Blog: One Life
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
John Buchan, 1875 - 1940
Welcome.
Great work you have, very creative
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"I guess it's time to ask if you live under high voltage power transmission lines which have been shown to cause stimulation of the fantasy centers of the brain due to electromagnetic waves?" - Me
"God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, - it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these divine attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks please. Cash and in small bills." - Robert A Heinlein.
Welcome to this website.
Hey do you use photoshop? Because I have a problem with photoshop that I need help with.
There are twists of time and space, of vision and reality, which only a dreamer can divine
H.P. Lovecraft
But Hieronymus Bosch would be proud.
Welcome!
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
fabulae! nil satis firmi video quam ob rem accipere hunc mi expediat metum. - Terence
Your skeptical worldview can also find friends at James Randi.com where the videos' are great and very informitive. WElcome to our site and don't be shy with the art work. We don't much care who Art is or what he does for work.
"Very funny Scotty; now beam down our clothes."
VEGETARIAN: Ancient Hindu word for "lousy hunter"
If man was formed from dirt, why is there still dirt?
A friend lent me one of his books over thirty years ago, I still have it. It helped shape my thinking back then, I still enjoy his clips today.
My Blog: One Life
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
John Buchan, 1875 - 1940
I don't. I use all other Adobe products, specially Illustrator - for vectors it's the best, I love it!
For raster work, I use Corel's PaintShop Pro X2. I started using PSP when it was shareware, it reads, writes and plugs-in everything Photoshop and does the job for me. So you actually know a lot more than me.
My Blog: One Life
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
John Buchan, 1875 - 1940
Thanks!
As an artist he'd be curious, maybe. But I doubt he'd appreciate my views on the type of fear and manipulation he used at the time. He was quite the propagandist.
M.
My Blog: One Life
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
John Buchan, 1875 - 1940
I'm usually around the 10th or so person to welcome a new member, so I was surprised that nobody beat me to it.
After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him.
The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.
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